ccRCC	clear cell RCC
EMT	epithelial–mesenchymal transition
FFPE	formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded
FPKM-UQ	fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads—upper quartile
GOI	gene of interest
HIF	hypoxia-inducible factor
ISUP	International Society of Urologic Pathologists
KIRC	kidney renal clear cell carcinoma
LINC00467	large intergenic non-coding RNA 00467
lncRNA	long non-coding RNA
MALAT1	metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1
miRNA	microRNA
mRNA	messenger RNA
ncRNA	non-coding RNA
OIP5-AS1	OPA-interacting protein 5 antisense transcript 1
Qpcr	quantitative polymerase chain reaction
RCC	renal cell carcinoma
RNA	ribonucleic acid
RG	reference gene
RPM	reads per million
RT	reverse transcriptase/transcription
sRCC	sarcomatoid RCC
TC	tumor center
TCGA	The Cancer Genome Atlas
TNM	tumor node metastasis
TP	tumor periphery
WHO	World Health Organization
VTT	venous tumor thrombus